历史上美国人看见的华人

Born in Germany and trained as a classical scholor。Genthe immigrated to San Francisco in 1895, where he tutored the son of Baron and Baroness J. Henrich von Schroeder. He also bought a camera and taught himself photography.

Fascinated by life in Chinatown, Genthe photographed the teaming streets just a few blocks north of this kiosk. When photograpging, Genthe sometimes hid his camera to allay his subject's fear. To heighten the exoticness of his photographs, Genthe would crop or remove Western elements from his images.

根特被唐人街的生活深深吸引，他只拍摄这个报亭北边的几条街。拍照时，根特还常常把相机隐蔽起来，减少被拍摄者的畏缩。为了提高他照片的异国情调，根特修剪消除图像里的西方元素。Much of his work was destroyed during the 1906 earthquake and fire. The approximately 200 surviving photographs of Chinatown are the most extensive record of one of the city's most famous neighborhoods.